Desk-accessory device



T. N. BEARFIELD.

DESK ACCESSORY DEVICE. APPLICATION flLED JAN. 10. 1920.

1,370,725. Patented Mar. 8,1921.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS N. BEARFIED, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF TO JAMES W. ELIKER, OF OAK PARK, ILLINOIS.

DESK-ACCESSORY DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 8, 19.21.

Application filed January 10, 1920. Serial No. 350,630.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS N. BEAR- FIELD, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and the State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Desk-Accessory Devices, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

The purpose of this invention is to provide a convenient and attractive receptacle and holder for various accessories and supplies used about a desk. It consists of the features and elements described and shown in the drawings as indicated by the claims.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in section showing a device embodying this invention.

Fig. 2 is a top plan of the same.

As illustrated in the drawings, this device comprises a base or pedestal, 1, terminating in a central spindle, 2, which rises from the pedestal at a transverse and horizontal shoulder, 3. Lodged on the shoulder, 3, and rotatively engaged with the spindle, 2, is a carrier, 4:, supporting a plurality of symmetrically arranged trays or pockets, 5, which are equi-distant from the aXis of the spindle, 2. These trays are dimensioned and designed to accommodate such accessory articles as pins, clips, rubber bands, pens and the like.

In combination with the device as above described there are provided a number of metallic disks, 6, adapted to serve as paperweights and each centrally perforated to engage the spindle, 2, as shown in Fig. 1. Thus the desk worker, if suddenly called away, can remove a number of these disks from the spindle, 2, and drop them each upon one of the various groups or piles of papers on his desk without stoppmg to change the arrangement or to otherwise dispose of the papers. In addition to this invention, it will be noted that one or more of the disks, 6, while in position on the spindle, 2, tends to hold the carrier, 4:, firmly turned to 1. The combination of a pedestal with a shoulder and an upstanding spindle projecting therefrom, and a carrier resting on the shoulder rotatably engaged by the spindle, said carrier comprising a central plate, a plurality of containers each contiguous to the next and symmetrically disposed about the plate, each container depending from the outer edge of the said plate and connected thereto and to each other, thus formmg an inverted box-like structure of rigid construction.

2. The combination of a pedestal with a shoulder and an upright spindle projecting from the pedestal at said shoulder, a carrier resting on the shoulder and rotatively engaged by the spindle, said carrier comprismg a rectangular center plate with a tray or container disposed at each edge thereof, the length of each tray equaling the extent of the edge of the plate at which it is secured, said spindle having a neck formed near its upper end and a plurality of disks each perforated at the center, thus adapted to be stored in a pile on the spindle.

3. The combination of a pedestal with a shoulder, and an upright spindle projecting from the pedestal at said shoulder, a carrier resting on the shoulder and rotatively engaged by the spindle, said spindle havlng a neck formed near its upper end, and a plurality of disks, each perforated and adapted to be removably threaded on the spindle for storing them thereon.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 8th day of January, 1919.

TI-IQMAS N. BEARFIELD. 

